I always wonder if I could wrap up my whole personality in one big entry, but the fact of the matter is...I can't. All I really even know about myself is where a belong (with my beloved family) and what my purpose is in life (to bring people to Christ).
I talk about God so little on my blog, and I quite frequently wonder why. Maybe it's just that I've never felt like I was in this position to just speak about. Like I was always worried that people wouldn't read me anymore. How's that for messed up priorities?
But the truth of the matter is, Christ means so much to me. I had a friend say the other night that he believed with his whole heart that the family in Christ is much more a family than the people who you share blood with. It's true. I am so blessed that everyone in my blood family is also a member of God's family too.
I don't think my faith meant all that much to me before this last year. I had this need for a friend, and I found one in Christ, and then drastic changes started to happen. Definitely not things you could see by reading my diary or just speaking with me- they were changes that affected my attitude towards other people, the things I said and the people I aspired to be like and be around.
Christ has done so much for me. He has given me hope and strength where none could be found. He has been a friend to me when I needed a friend the most. But most importantly, He died for me and everyone else in the world because He loved us all.
What amazing love that was!
Someone told me last week how much I had changed. They told me I was about 100% more mellow, and that I was very strong where I hadn't been before.
And it's true. It's all true because through Christ we can be the people we want to be.
What is holding you back from Christ? I want to hear about it, because I care.
Love you all,
Beth
Acts 2:38 "Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Mark 16:16 "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
Romans 6:1-14 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.